Jack:
...but to blame all this on a French philosopher who's been dead for 300 years, isn't that a little out of proportion? Maybe even a little eccentric?

Sonia:
No. Not if I'm right.

Jack:
Are you gonna help me in this, or are you gonna leave me stranded out here in this argument by myself?

Thomas:
I'm gonna leave you stranded. I'm gonna leave you stranded.

Jack:
It's the art of bringing people to agree on a certain course of action. If that course of action succeeds, the people are satisfied. If not, they're not. It's as simple as that. If it works, it's good. Period.

Thomas:
Isn't that exactly what you said 'why politics doesn't work anymore'? That politics, you said, needed to become the 'art of the impossible'?

Jack:
Who's side are you on?

Thomas:
Her's, obviously. She's intelligent, gracious and more attractive.

Jack:
American voters want their leaders to be dumber than they are. They figure they'll do less harm that way.